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UNISA996248140103316 |
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Titolo |
Sense of place : American regional cultures / / edited by Barbara Allen & Thomas J. Schlereth ; contributors, Barbara Allen [and ten others] |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1990 |
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©1990 |
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ISBN |
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0-8131-3207-X |
1-322-59828-2 |
0-8131-5842-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Collana |
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Publication of the American Folklore Society. New series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Regionalism - United States |
Folklore - United States |
United States Social life and customs 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-211). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Regional Studies in American Folklore Scholarship; Folklore and Reality in the American West; Tornado Stories in the Breadbasket: Weather and Regional Identity; ""One Reason God Made Trees"": The Form and Ecology of the Barnegat Bay Sneakbox; Mankind's Thumb on Nature's Scale: Trapping and Regional Identity in the Missouri Ozarks; Regional Consciousness as a Shaper of Local History: Examples from the Eastern Shore; Image and Identity in Oregon's Pioneer Cemeteries |
Carbon-Copy Towns? The Regionalization of Ethnic Folklife in Southern Illinois's EgyptA Regional Musical Style: The Legacy of Arnold Shultz; Creative Constraints in the Folk Arts of Appalachia; The Genealogical Landscape and the Southern Sense of Place; Regional Culture Studies and American Culture Studies; Notes; Contributors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Despite the homogenization of American life, areas of strong regional consciousness still persist in the United States, and there is a growing interest in regionalism among the public and among academics. In response to that interest ten folklorists here describe and interpret a variety of American regional cultures in the twentieth century. Their |
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